vindication

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An act of asserting or maintaining; an assertion.

   “[T]he loud "Aye, Aye" of the bulk of the members [of Parliament] supported [John] Eliot in his last vindication of English liberty.”

2. isim An argument, fact, piece of evidence, etc., which vindicates (“clears someone of an accusation or suspicion; justifies a belief or claim by providing evidence or proof”).

   “The great vindication of evil is, that (constituted as we are) we could not know so much joy, nor manifest so much virtue without it; and certainly, in instances like these, it fetches out, under circumstances of the extremest weakness, the most beautiful strength of the human heart.”

3. isim The action of vindicating; also, the state of being vindicated.

   “These are the reasons which I have gathered from philosophy and nature; to which I can add other circumstances in vindication of the account of this learned body who publish this almanack.”

4. isim A feeling of deserved satisfaction that comes from being proven correct.

   “When they finally admitted their actions, Anne felt vindication and walked with pride once again.”

5. isim A legal claim for a declaration that one is the owner of a thing or the holder of a right; an action in rem.

   “Coordinate term: condiction”

6. isim The action of avenging or taking revenge.
7. isim The action of setting free; deliverance.

   “[T]he peoples affection binding it ſelfe to their redeemer; beſides a neceſſity to keepe them vnited vnto him by the meanes of ſo abhorred a neighbour, from vvhom their vindication, into liberty, muſt bee maintained by their ovvne conſtancy: […]”

8. isim Punishment, retribution.

   “[T]hings carried ſo farre on in a vvrong vvay, muſt needs either inſlave themſelves and poſterity for ever, or require a vindication ſo ſharpe and ſmarting, as that the Nation vvould groane under it; […]”